sudo apt-get clean problem

[omart]

On running update manager it reports that boot is full and tells me to run sudo apt-get clean from a command line to delete old packages. I've done this with no results. Is there some other way to delete these packages?

[ajgreeny]

You probably need to remove old kernels.

The command

grep "menuentry " /boot/grub/grub.cfg | cut -c 1-100

will show all kernels on your system, and everything else that shows in the grub menu (even if you don't see that menu at boot)

The easiest way to remove old kernels, I think, is to install and use synaptic which let's you search for the kernel packages by number, eg for Precise 12.04, linux-image-3.2.0-36 and you can then remove all of them except the two most recent, ie the one you're using and one previous as a backup.

[omart]

Sorry. It's not old kernel problem.

[ajgreeny]

Sorry. It's not old kernel problem.

So how is it that /boot is full? Did you mean boot or should you have said root?

If sudo apt-get clean did not show an error then it worked, and there should be no .deb packages left in /var/cache/apt/archives.

[omart]

Sudo apt-get clean or autoclean does not remove old pacage, what has to be done to remove them?

[plucky]

Sudo apt-get clean or autoclean does not remove old pacage, what has to be done to remove them?

All "sudo apt-get clean" does is delete all the downloaded .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives.

Try

sudo apt-get autoremove

which will remove all obsolete packages.

Good Luck

[omart]

Not working. Looks like it needs more space to work than is available. Is it possible to delete from terminal?

[ibjsb4]

Hi omart, welcome to the forums

You can also take a look here for more ways.

http://www.googlubuntu.com/results/?...ch&cof=FORID:9

[omart]

Finally did it with synaptic package manager.

[oldos2er]

Threads merged. Please don't start more than one thread per issue, it's confusing and it dilutes community effort.